Irish Literary Times

Saw King Kong as a very young boy and was smitten.

Sounds like a regular night at my writing group.

Is my work never done?😉

Did you know the
@nlireland.bsky.social
houses original artworks by actual people who are still alive. If you get in touch you can view original art from #TheLatenightWritersClub which held safe and warm in their Illustration archives for all eternity

Thank you to the Belltable for being a super venue for the Festival. Wonderful to have all the events in one place and thanks to the staff for the smooth running of it all.
#LLF2026

I need to revisit. I remember the film being made at Trinity when I was studying there (Engineering - none of that Blake nonsense!).

A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains. A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!" He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path." She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married." He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers." Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!" He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs. "When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!" She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

'Castle'
One of the limited-edition prints in my shop
www.tomgauld.com/shop

Looks stunning

We could all be "dead 'appy".

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Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman - The Manchester Review Shirking the moral constraints of autofiction, this novel provides ecstatic multiple narrative planes that wrestle instead with the uncanny Rob Doyle | Cameo | Wieden & Nicholson: £20Reviewed by Edwar...

The Manchester Review
Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13182

👏

First US review of #FewAndFarBetween and its very positive

Toronto people!!

Woohoo!

Always a pleasure to hear @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social speak about his writing. So thoughtful and fluent and rich in consideration.

Here he is in conversation with John Brannigan at the launch of Late Heaney @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social this evening.

Ah, Emily Hahn. What an amazing woman.

Book with a broken spine being mended with hinge tape. A jar of glue, a brush, and a bone folder lie on the counter behind the book.

part of my job is to take broken books and fix them so they are even stronger. i am genuinely happy that my life has come to this. 📚

20 years - congrats!

We need more poets versus fiction writers food fights

"I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend."

Tonight at 7pm our @jlod.bsky.social will be chatting MR HOO AND OTHER STORIES to the fabulous @rickoshea.bsky.social on ARENA on @rteradio1.bsky.social

People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it.

And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too.

#SpeirGorm

Huh!

What To Expect When You're Expecting A Book — Jan Carson Here are ten things you might expect to feel in the run up to the launch of your book.

I wrote about managing your expectations in the run up to publishing a book, (very flippantly)
www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-a-book

Parting financial wisdom from my father tonight, as we ended our call: “You’ll never see a trailer behind a hearse.”

And much appreciated.